There’s an old saying:
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Joshua Foer, a science writer, was once commissioned by Slate magazine to cover the U.S. Memory Championship. A year later, he returned not as a journalist but as a competitor.

A journalist once asked Warren Buffett:
“You’re one of the richest people in the world, and the way you explain what you do sounds so simple. Why doesn’t everyone just copy you?”

1. Move when the sun is up.
Don’t sit when you can stand.
Don’t stand when you can walk.
Don’t walk when you can run.

1. Eliminate or significantly reduce screen time

I am the first generation in my family whose work moved from the physical world to screens. First it was work, then communication (WhatsApp) and finally entertainment (Netflix).

Wŏnhyo, a Korean Buddhist monk, was travelling to China long time ago to study Buddhism.

Munger studied meteorology at Caltech and law at Harvard, but in the real world, he refused to live inside academic fences. He learned from everywhere.

Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins’ (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker. It’s about a basic fact of biology.

I read Warren Buffett’s Thanksgiving letter over the weekend, and it sent me down a rabbit hole into the life and wisdom of Don Keough.

Money has always been a psychological, tribal consensus, a shared belief at a point in time, not an undisputable scientific fact.